Re: Taking a Napster aka eating corn dogs and sleeping in a van; I believe my own eyes

["Kevin B. O'Brien" <kob1@ix.netcom.com>]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:40:00 -0400, "Mark R. Leaman"
<mleaman@sccoast.net> , late of Pablo Fanques Fair wrote:

>
>> it is nice to hear pete supporting bootlegs and not being an a**hole like
>> lars ulrich of metallica
>> 
>> word.
>> 
>> The difference is pete wants his music to be heard not like lars
>ulrich!!!!!!
>
>Keets and the others:
>
>I'm sorry...you guys are just way off base here. Lars isn't acting against
>bootlegs, he's against working and not getting paid for it.

He should pay more attention to who is really screwing him. The RIAA
can trot him out as the poor artist when they go after Napster, but
then they screw all the artists by the "work for hire" clause they
slipped through recent legislation. That takes away all of the
artists' rights to their own music, and gives all of the rights to
the big record companies, in perpetuity.

My main hope at this point is that the digital technology will
destroy the big record companies. It just might. And that is what
they are afraid of.


-- 
Kevin B. O'Brien                  TANSTAAFL
kob1@ix.netcom.com
"I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh,
there was a happy time when I believed in liberals..."
 -- G. K. Chesterton

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